A historical event can be defined as any occurrence from the past regardless of significance, with the term "history" an umbrella term relating to past events and any associated memories, discoveries, collections, organizations, presentations, and/or interpretations of them. This differs from a historic event which is often less inclusive, and stands out as having made a significant impact on history itself.[1]
The following is a list of notable people documented as the last living individuals to have witnessed, survived or participated in significant historical events or who were the last living members of a historic group that directly contributed to such an event (e.g. Manhattan Project scientists). Excluded from this list are last living survivors of wars, speakers of languages, and others who are already recorded on pages representing more narrow categories.
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sancho de Tovar | c. 1547 (aged 75–82) | Last known witness to the Discovery of Brazil | 22 April 1500 | |
| Mary Allerton | 28 November 1699 (aged 83) | Last passenger of the Mayflower | 11 November 1620 | |
| John Alden | 12 September 1687 (aged 88) | Last signer of the Mayflower Compact | ||
| Peregrine White | 20 July 1704 (aged 83) | Last participant at the First Thanksgiving | 11 November 1621 | |
| Last surviving Pilgrim Father | 30 November 1621 | |||
| William Hubbard | 24 September 1704 (aged 82–83) | Last member of Harvard's inaugural graduating class | 3 October 1642[2] | |
| Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda | 14 December 1676 (aged ~81) | Last known diplomat at the Peace of Westphalia | 24 October 1648 | |
| Edmund Ludlow | c.1692 (aged ~75) | Last regicide of Charles I of England | 30 January 1649 | |
| Sir Christopher Wren | 8 March 1723 (aged 90) | Last founder of the Royal Society | 28 November 1660 | |
| Samuel Sewall | 1 January 1730 (aged 77) | Last court official in the Salem Witch Trials | May 1693 | |
| Thomas Aikenhead[3] | Last Briton executed for blasphemy | 8 January 1697 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Robert Twelves Hewes | 5 March 1770 | ||
| Last participant of the Boston Tea party | 16 December 1773 | ||
| Isaac Smith | Last participant of James Cook's first voyage | 12 July 1771 | |
| John Jay | Last signer of the Continental Association | 20 October 1774 | |
| Last signer of the Treaty of Paris | 3 September 1783 | ||
| Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet[4] | Last royal governor of any of the British Thirteen Colonies (New Hampshire) | 13 June 1775 | |
| John Hatley | Last participant of James Cook's second voyage | 30 July 1775 | |
| Charles Carroll | Last signer of the United States Declaration of Independence | 4 July 1776 | |
| William Ellery | Last signer of the Articles of Confederation | 1 March 1781 | |
| James Madison | Last signer of The United States Constitution | 17 September 1787 | |
| Barthélemy de Lesseps[5] | Last participant of the scientific expedition led by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | 1788 | |
| Elizabeth Thackery | Last survivor of the First Fleet | 20 January 1788 | |
| John Armstrong Jr. | Last delegate to the Continental Congress | 2 March 1789 | |
| John Adams | Last mutineer of HMS Bounty | 28 April 1789 | |
| Arthur Dardenne[6] | Last participant of the Storming of the Bastille | 14 July 1789 | |
| Paine Wingate | Last member of the first United States Congress | 3 March 1791 | |
| Antoine Claire Thibaudeau | Last member of the National Convention during the French Revolution to vote in the trial of Louis XVI | 15 January 1793 | |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Gardner Swift | Last survivor of the first graduating class at the United States Military Academy [7] | 12 October 1802 | |
| Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès | Last member of the French Consulate | 18 May 1804 | |
| Patrick Gass | Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | 23 September 1806 | |
| Henry Goulburn | Last signer of the Treaty of Ghent | 24 December 1814 | |
| André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin | Last delegate to the Congress of Vienna | 9 June 1815 | |
| Seth Weeks | Last survivor of the sinking of the whaleship Essex | 20 November 1820 | |
| Dmitry Zavalishin | Last member of the Decembrist movement | 14 December 1825 | |
| Last of the Three Witnesses | 28 June 1829 | ||
| Ramón Castilla y Marquesado | Last of the Libertadores | 29 September 1833 | |
| Laureano Tacuavé Martínez | c. 1850 (aged c. 41) | Last charrúa exhibited to the public as a circus attraction | 11 November 1833 |
| Alijo Perez Jr. | 19 October 1918 (aged 83) | Last civilian Survivor of the Battle of the Alamo | 6 March 1836 |
| Jean-Paul, comte de Schramm | Last of the 660 persons whose names are inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe | 29 July 1836 | |
| Thomas Patrickson[8] | Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | 2 October 1836 | |
| Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin[9] [10] | Last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1839 | |
| Milvern Harrell[11] [12] | Last Texian survivor of the Dawson Massacre | 17 September 1842 | |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker[13] | Last participant of the Ross expedition | 4 September 1843 | |
| Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon[14] | Last survivor of the Donner Party | 29 April 1847 | |
| James Stephens Brown[15] [16] | 28 January 1848 | ||
| Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce[17] [18] | Last participant in the Seneca Falls Convention | 20 July 1848 | |
| Last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Brown[19] [20] | Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | 18 October 1859 | ||
| Lyman Epps, Jr. | Last witness of the funeral and burial of John Brown | 8 December 1859 | ||
| Matilda McCrear | January 1940 (aged c. 83) | Last human cargo of the slave ship | 9 July 1860 | |
| Georg Hermann Quincke[21] | Last known attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress | 5 September 1860 | ||
| Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell | Last signer of the Constitution of the Confederate States | 11 March 1861 | ||
| Francis Humphreys Storer[22] | 10 April 1861 | |||
| John Surratt[23] | 14 April 1865 | |||
| Samuel J. Seymour[24] | Last witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |||
| John Henninger Reagan | Last cabinet member of the Confederate States of America | 10 May 1865 | ||
| Peter Mills | Last known surviving American who was born into legal slavery | 18 December 1865 | ||
| Samuel Speed[25] [26] [27] | 8 November 1938 (aged 95) | Last surviving British convict sent to Australia | 4 July 1866 | |
| Agustín de Iturbide y Green | Last member of the Imperial Court of the Second Mexican Empire | 19 June 1867 | ||
| Charles Tupper | Last Canadian Father of Confederation | 1 July 1867 | ||
| Mary Field Garner[28] [29] | 1868 | |||
| Andreas Kieber | 19 April 1939 (aged 94)[30] | Last surviving member of the Liechtenstein military | 12 February 1868 | |
| Cornelius Cole | Last United States Senator who participated in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson | 26 May 1868 | ||
| George H. Large | Last participant of the first American football game | 6 November 1869 | ||
| Sophia Jex-Blake | Last of the Edinburgh Seven | 27 June 1873 | ||
| Charles Edward Munroe[31] | Last charter member of the American Chemical Society | 6 April 1876 | ||
| James Wilson | Last Fenian prisoner who escaped the British penal colony of Western Australia on the Catalpa | 19 April 1876 | ||
| Tom Garrett | Last player from the first official cricket test match | 19 March 1877 | ||
| Ann Eliza Young | 7 December 1917 (aged 73) | Last wife of Brigham Young | 29 August 1877 | |
| Nikolai Morozov | Last person involved in the Assassination of Alexander II | 13 March 1881 | ||
| James Robert Cummins | Last member of the James-Younger Gang | 7 September 1881 | ||
| Wyatt Earp | Last participant of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 26 October 1881 | ||
| Alphonse Chodron de Courcel | Last participant of the Berlin Conference | 26 February 1885 | ||
| José Vianna da Motta[32] | 31 July 1886 | |||
| James Stockley[33] | Last policeman to work on the Jack the Ripper case | 1888 | ||
| Robert Muldrow | Last founder of the National Geographic Society | 13 January 1888 | ||
| Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau | Last of the 72 people whose names are inscribed on the Eiffel Tower | 31 March 1889 | ||
| Louisa Motley (née Yellow Shield)[34] | 1 May 1979 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | 29 December 1890 | |
| Borges de Medeiros | 25 April 1961 (aged 97) | Last known signatory of the Brazilian Constitution of 1891 | 24 February 1891 | |
| Ernest Gotthold Hildner[35] [36] | Last participant of the first basketball game ever played | 21 December 1891 | ||
| Henry Churchill King | Last member of the Committee of Ten | 30 December 1892 | ||
| Alfred Hennen Morris[37] | Last founder of the Jockey Club | 9 February 1894 | ||
| George H. Warren[38] | Last charter member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants | 12 January 1897 | ||
| Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo | Last founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters | 20 July 1897 | ||
| George Fox[39] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 15 February 1898 | ||
| Alexander Vannovskiy | Last participant of the 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | 15 March 1898 | ||
| Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia | Last signer of the 1898 Treaty of Paris | 10 December 1898 | ||
| Jules Cambon | Last delegate to the 1898 Treaty of Paris | |||
| Jacob Gould Schurman | 12 August 1942 (aged 88) | Last member of the Schurman Commission | 29 January 1899 | |
| Bernard Moses | 3 March 1930 (aged 83) | Last (original) member of the Taft Commission | 16 March 1900 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn[40] | 3 January 1913 (aged 74) | Last Groom of the Stool | 22 January 1901 | |
| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | 10 February 1923 (aged 77) | Last laureate of the first Nobel Prize ceremony | 10 December 1901 | |
| Roscinda Nolasquez[41] | Last speaker of Cupeño and last survivor of the removal of the Cupeño to Pala, California, the final of the Federal Indian Removals | 13 May 1903 | ||
| Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | Last member of the 1st Central Committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | 23 August 1903 | ||
| Johnny Moore[42] [43] | Last witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight | 17 December 1903 | ||
| Adella Wotherspoon | Last and youngest survivor of the disaster | 15 June 1904 | ||
| Michael Barne | Last participant of the Discovery Expedition | 10 September 1904 | ||
| James Rudolph Garfield | 24 March 1950 (aged 84) | Last member of the Keep Commission | 1905 | |
| William Del Monte[44] | Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | 18 April 1906 | ||
| Mangnellai Daeng Maro[45] | 1978 (aged 80–81) | Last known Makassan traveler to make contact with Australia | 1907 (End of Makassan contact with Australia) | |
| Louis Maurer[46] | 19 July 1932 (aged 100) | Last Currier and Ives staff member | 1907 | |
| Brian Evans-Lombe[47] | Last participant of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement | 8 August 1907 | ||
| Donald Baxter MacMillan[48] | Last member of Robert Peary's final expedition towards the North Pole | 6 April 1909 | ||
| Mary Jo Estep | Last survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek | 25 February 1911 | ||
| Rose Freedman[49] | Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 25 March 1911 | ||
| Ishi | 25 March 1916 (aged 55) | Last known member of the Native American Yahi people, the last uncontacted peoples of the United States | 29 August 1911 | |
| Georges Hostelet | 4 November 1960 (aged 85) | Last attendee of the First Solvay Conference | 3 November 1911 | |
| Sid Daniels | Last crew member of the | 15 April 1912 | ||
| Millvina Dean | Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic | |||
| Dhimitër Beratti | Last signer of the Albanian Declaration of Independence | 28 November 1912 | ||
| Alessandro Moreschi | Last castrato | 1913 | ||
| Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[50] [51] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 29 May 1914 | ||
| Vaso Čubrilović | Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 28 June 1914 | ||
| Alexander Bernard Heron[52] | Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal | 15 August 1914 | ||
| James Van Fleet[53] | Last surviving member of The class the stars fell on to have reached the rank of general | 3 May 1915 | ||
| Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl)[54] [55] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 7 May 1915 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George D. Grundy Jr.[56] | Last member of the Early Birds of Aviation | 17 December 1916 | ||
| Stanislas Lazovert | Last participant of the assassination of Grigori Rasputin | 30 December 1916 | ||
| Sun Yaoting | Last surviving imperial Chinese eunuch | 1917 | ||
| Vsevolod Shakhovskoy | Last Minister of the Russian Empire | 15 March 1917 | ||
| Vasily Shulgin | Last participant of the Abdication of Nicholas II | |||
| Last Deputy of the Russian Imperial Duma | 6 October 1917 | |||
| Mikhail Goberman[57] | 1986 (aged 93–94) | Last person to travel with Vladimir Lenin to Finland Station | 16 April 1917 | |
| Richard W. Richards | Last member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition | 29 May 1917 | ||
| Herbert Bayard Swope[58] | 20 June 1958 (aged 76) | Last recipient of the 1st Pulitzer Prizes | 4 June 1917 | |
| Lúcia Santos | Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima | 13 October 1917 | ||
| Boris Gudz[59] | Last participant of the October Revolution | 7 November 1917 | ||
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Last member of the Petrograd Soviet and Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee during the Russian Revolution | |||
| Alexander Kerensky | Last member of the Russian Provisional Government during the Russian Revolution | |||
| Lazar Kaganovich | Last Old Bolshevik to participate in the October Revolution | |||
| Last deputy of the Russian Constituent Assembly | 18 January 1918 | |||
| Aleksandras Stulginskis | Last signer of the Act of Independence of Lithuania | 16 February 1918 | ||
| Henry Allingham | Last member of the RNAS and last founding member of the Royal Air Force | 1 April 1918 | ||
| Mykhailo Hrushevsky | Last President of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic | 29 April 1918 | ||
| Şəfi bəy Rüstəmbəyli | 20 December 1960 (aged 67) | Last signer of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan | 28 May 1918 | |
| Alexey Kabanov[60] | 1972 (aged 81) | Last surviving participant in the execution of the Romanov family | 17 July 1918 | |
| Ernst Jünger | Last wearer of the military Pour le Mérite | 9 November 1918 | ||
| Pavlo Skoropadskyi | Last Hetman of the Ukrainian State | 14 December 1918 | ||
| Raul Fernandes[61] [62] | Last signer of the Treaty of Versailles | 28 June 1919 | ||
| Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | 1 December 1952 (aged 92) | Last Big Four leader | ||
| Swede Risberg | Last player involved in the Black Sox Scandal | 9 October 1919 | ||
| José Ameal Peña[63] [64] | Last survivor of the 1918 flu pandemic in Spain | April 1920 | ||
| Peter Casserly | Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force | 1 April 1921 | ||
| Liu Renjing | Last participant of the 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party | 2 August 1921 | ||
| Dürrüşehvar Sultan | Last member of the Imperial Ottoman Court | 1 November 1922 | ||
| Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan | 28 November 1982 (aged 99) | Last Privy Counsellor of Ireland | 5 December 1922 | |
| Lady Evelyn Beauchamp | 31 January 1980 (aged 79) | Last witness of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb | 16 February 1923 | |
| Emil Klein[65] | Last participant of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | 9 November 1923 | ||
| Edgar Nollner[66] [67] | Last musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | 2 February 1925 | ||
| Thomas J. Brewer[68] | Last participant in the Scopes Trial | 21 July 1925 | ||
| Irene Dunham[69] | Last survivor of the Bath School disaster | 18 May 1927 | ||
| Louis de Broglie | Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference | 29 October 1927 | ||
| Mabel M. Williams[70] | Last known Radium Girl | 1928 | ||
| Barbara Kent[71] | Last adult silent film actor/actress | 1929 | ||
| Garry Watson | Living (age) | Last living silent film actor/actress | ||
| Bobbi Trout | Last participant of the Women's Air Derby | 27 August 1929 | ||
| Irene Parlby | Last of The Famous Five (Canada) | 18 October 1929 | ||
| Rachel Johnson[72] | Last St. Kildan | 29 August 1930 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doris Eaton Travis | Last Ziegfeld girl | 1931 | |
| Alf Howard[73] [74] | Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica | 19 March 1931 | |
| Josef Felder | Last Reichstag member to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 | 23 March 1933 | |
| Jennings Randolph | Last member of the United States Congress to vote during the First 100 Days | 11 June 1933 | |
| Lyle Talbot | Last founding member of the Screen Actors Guild | 12 July 1933 | |
| Karina Vasilieva[75] | Living (age) | Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster | 13 April 1934 |
| Evgeniy Silov[76] [77] | Last participant of the SS Chelyuskin Rescue Operation | ||
| Anatoly Lyapidevsky | Last member of the inaugural Heroes of the Soviet Union group | 23 April 1934 | |
| Edd L. Miller[78] | Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde | 23 May 1934 | |
| Thomas J. Conner[79] | Last member of the FBI team that killed John Dillinger | 22 July 1934 | |
| Bill Eiserman[80] | Living (age) | Last witness to the Battle of Barrington | 27 November 1934 |
| Julian Edwin Bailes Sr. | 1 February 2010 (aged 95) | Last witness to the assassination of Huey Long | 8 September 1935 |
| Iris Cummings | Living (age) | Last participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics | 16 August 1936 |
| James Clark McReynolds | Last of the Four Horsemen (Supreme Court) | 1937 | |
| Harlan F. Stone | Last of the Three Musketeers (Supreme Court) | ||
| Morton Minsky[81] | Last founder of Minsky's Burlesque | April 1937 | |
| Werner Franz[82] | Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster | 6 May 1937 | |
| Werner Doehner[83] | Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster | ||
| David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie[84] | Last surviving major participant at the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth | 12 May 1937 | |
| Walter Walsh | Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady | 12 October 1937 | |
| John F. Druze[85] | Last of the Seven Blocks of Granite | 27 November 1937 | |
| Fon Huffman | Last survivor of the USS Panay incident | 12 December 1937 | |
| Kazimierz Świtalski | 30 September 1939 | ||
| Joseph Solman[86] | 16 April 2008 (aged 99) | Last of The Ten Whitney Dissenters | 4 November 1939 |
| Emilio Ochoa | Last signer of the 1940 Constitution of Cuba | 1 July 1940 | |
| Robert R. Johnson[87] | 9 April 2023[88] (aged 102) | Last survivor of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition | 22 March 1941 |
| Mikhail Petrovich Sidko | Living (age) | Last living survivor of the Babi Yar Massacre | 30 September 1941 |
| Donald "Nick" Clifford[89] [90] | Last worker who participated in the construction of Mount Rushmore | 31 October 1941 | |
| Joseph T. McNarney | 1 February 1972 (aged 78) | Last member of the Roberts Commission | December 1941 |
| Edwin Arthur Hall | Last member of the United States Congress to vote on the United States declaration of war on Japan | 8 December 1941 | |
| Gerhard Klopfer | Last attendant of the Wannsee Conference | 20 January 1942 | |
| David Stoliar | Last survivor of the Struma disaster | 24 February 1942 | |
| Jarmila Doležalová[91] | Living (age) | Last survivor of the Ležáky massacre | 24 June 1942 |
| Rudolf Brazda[92] | Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality | 8 August 1942 | |
| Ray Anthony[93] [94] | Living (age) | Last member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra | September 1942 |
| Robert L. Shumway[95] [96] | Living (age) | Last known survivor of the Cocoanut Grove fire | 28 November 1942 |
| Albert Wattenburg | 27 June 2007 (aged 90) | Last of the physicists present at the first controlled nuclear reaction | 2 December 1942 |
| Bill Sparks | Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes | 12 December 1942 | |
| Traute Lafrenz[97] | Last member of the White Rose | 18 February 1943 | |
| Viktor Zhelobkovich[98] | Last survivor of the Khatyn massacre | 22 March 1943 | |
| Ruth Slenczynska[99] | Living (age) | Last pupil of Sergei Rachmaninoff | 28 March 1943 |
| Marek Edelman | Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 16 May 1943 | |
| Aliza Melamed Vitis-Shomron[100] | Living (age) | Last participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
| Samuel Willenberg | Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp | 2 August 1943 | |
| Mostyn "Moss" Berryman[101] | 6 August 2020 (aged 96) | Last surviving member of Operation Jaywick | 26 September 1943 |
| Simjon Rosenfeld[102] | Last survivor of the Sobibor uprising | 14 October 1943 | |
| Emanuele Di Porto[103] | Living (age) | Last survivor of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome | 16 October 1943 |
| Winston Churchill | Last participant of the Tehran Conference | 1 December 1943 | |
| Last participant of the Yalta Conference | 2 February 1945 | ||
| Jennifer Jones | Last award winner of the 1st Golden Globe Awards | 20 January 1944 | |
| Robert Hébras | Last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre | 10 June 1944 | |
| Otto Günsche | 2 October 2003 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | 20 July 1944 |
| Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | ||
| Kurt Salterberg[104] | Last witness to the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | ||
| Edward Osóbka-Morawski | Last signer of the PKWN Manifesto | 22 July 1944 | |
| Miep Gies | Last member of the group which hid Anne Frank in the Secret Annex | 4 August 1944 | |
| Teruo Murakami[105] [106] | [107] | Last participant of the Cowra breakout | 5 August 1944 |
| Dario Gabbai | Last member of the Sonderkommando | 18 January 1945 | |
| Ivan Martynushkin | Living (age) | Last liberator of Auschwitz | 27 January 1945 |
| Eddie Slovik[108] | Last US soldier executed for desertion | 31 January 1945 | |
| Traudl Junge[109] | Last witness to the death of Adolf Hitler | 30 April 1945 | |
| Rochus Misch[110] | Last of Adolf Hitler's bodyguards | ||
| Last occupant of the Führerbunker | 2 May 1945 | ||
| Luciano "Louis" C. Graziano[111] [112] | Living (age) | Last witness to the German Surrender Ceremony | 8 May 1945 |
| Rudolf Hess | Last cabinet member of the Third Reich | ||
| Harold Stassen | Last signer of the United Nations Charter | 26 June 1945 | |
| Harold Bray | Living (age) | Last surviving crew member of the | 30 July 1945 |
| Harry S. Truman | Last participant of the Potsdam Conference | 2 August 1945 | |
| Arsilan[113] | Living (age) | Last participant in the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence | 17 August 1945 |
| Robert Kenneth Kaufman[114] | Last American officer present at the Surrender of Japan on board the | 2 September 1945 (End of World War II) | |
| Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape | Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hubert Germain | Last Compagnon de la Libération | 23 January 1946 | ||
| Simeon II[115] | Living (age) | Last Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the last leader to reign with the title of tsar[116] | 15 September 1946 | |
| Ben Ferencz | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | 1 October 1946 | ||
| Rudolf Hess | 17 August 1987 (aged 93) | Last defendant at the Nuremberg Trials | ||
| Ossie Schectman | Last participant of the Inaugural NBA Game | 1 November 1946 | ||
| Charles Luckman | 26 January 1999 (aged 89) | Last member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights | 5 December 1946 | |
| Last member of the Fahy Committee | 26 July 1948 | |||
| Brajraj Mahapatra | Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state | 1947 | ||
| Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar | Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India | |||
| Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III | Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire | |||
| Knut Haugland | Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition | 7 August 1947 | ||
| Kenneth C. Royall | Last United States Secretary of War | 18 September 1947 | ||
| Marsha Hunt[117] | Last member of the Committee for the First Amendment | 2 November 1947 | ||
| Last person accused in the Red Channels list | 22 June 1950 | |||
| Ring Lardner Jr.[118] | Last member of the Hollywood Ten | 25 November 1947 | ||
| Gopal Godse | Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi | 30 January 1948 | ||
| Emilio Colombo[119] | 24 June 2013 (aged 93) | Last member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy | 31 January 1948 | |
| Richard Nixon | Last member of the Herter Committee | 1 May 1948 | ||
| Arieh Handler | Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence | 14 May 1948 | ||
| Teiichi Suzuki | 15 July 1989 (aged 100) | Last defendant at the Tokyo Trials | 12 November 1948 | |
| Hernán Santa Cruz | Last member of the Drafting Committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 10 December 1948 | ||
| Rexford Tugwell | 21 July 1979 (aged 88) | Last surviving United States-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico | 2 January 1949 | |
| Martin Sandberger | Last defendant at the Subsequent Nuremberg trials | 13 April 1949 | ||
| [120] | Last member of the Parlamentarischer Rat | 23 May 1949 | ||
| Caren Marsh Doll | Living (age) | Last survivor of the crash of Standard Air Lines Flight 897R | 12 July 1949 | |
| Charles L. Greenlee | 18 April 2012 (aged 78) | Last of the Groveland Four | 16 July 1949 | |
| Isaak Khalatnikov[121] | Last physicist involved in the Soviet atomic bomb project | 29 August 1949 | ||
| Gonzalo Facio Segreda[122] | 24 January 2018 (aged 99) | Last member of the Founding Junta of the Second Republic | 8 November 1949 | |
| Tony Lovink | Last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies | 27 December 1949 | ||
| Louis Cheslock[123] [124] | Last member of H.L. Mencken's Saturday Night Club | 1950 | ||
| Andor Lilienthal | Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters | |||
| John Cairncross | Last of the Cambridge Five | 1950s | ||
| T. M. Kaliannan[125] [126] | Last member of the Constituent Assembly of India | 25 January 1950 | ||
| Ludmila Brožová-Polednová[127] | 15 January 2015 (aged 93) | Last participant in Milada Horáková's trial | 8 June 1950 | |
| Omar Bradley | Last General of the Army and last American to hold a Five-star rank | 22 September 1950 | ||
| Vincent Mroz[128] | 22 July 2008 (aged 86) | Last person involved in the shootout during the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman | 1 November 1950 | |
| Ian Hamilton | Last participant in the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey | 25 December 1950 | ||
| Morton Sobell | Last defendant in the Rosenberg spy trial | 5 April 1951 | ||
| Reginald Kray | Last prisoner at the Tower of London | March 1952 | ||
| Moon Fun Chin[129] | Last CNAC pilot | May 1952 | ||
| Luis Muñoz Rivera | 30 September 2006 (aged 90) | Last delegate to Puerto Rico's Constitutional Convention | 25 July 1952 | |
| Del Crandall[130] | 5 May 2021 (aged 91) | Last surviving member of the Boston Braves | 21 September 1952 | |
| Nikolai Baibakov | Last Soviet government minister who served during the Stalin Era | 5 March 1953 | ||
| Nuritdin Mukhitdinov | Last member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Stalin Era | |||
| Kanchha Sherpa[131] | Living (age) | Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition | 29 May 1953 | |
| Clark Kerr | 1 December 2003 (aged 92) | Last member of the Kestnbaum Commission | 10 June 1953 | |
| William Kelly Harrison, Jr. | Last signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement | 27 July 1953 | ||
| Jackie Sewell | Last player in the Match of the Century | 25 November 1953 | ||
| Kenneth A. Roberts | Last wounded congressman in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | 1 March 1954 | ||
| Rafael Cancel Miranda | Last perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | |||
| Morton Prince[132] [133] [134] [135] [136] | late 2022 (aged 98) | Last inventor of Bell Labs' first solar cell | 25 April 1954 | |
| Zelma Henderson | Last plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case | 17 May 1954 | ||
| 20 March 2017 (aged 101) | Last participant of the first Bilderberg Conference | 31 May 1954 | ||
| Bobby Shantz | Living (age) | Last surviving member of the Philadelphia A's | 26 September 1954 | |
| Richard Harding Poff | Last signer of the Southern Manifesto | 12 March 1956 | ||
| Albert Woolson[137] | 2 August 1956 (aged 106) | Last member of the Grand Army of the Republic | 2 August 1956 | |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | 28 October 2022 (aged 87) | Last member of the Million Dollar Quartet | 4 December 1956 | |
| Maurice Faure[138] | Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | 25 March 1957 | ||
| Last member of the Traitorous eight who founded Silicon Valley | 18 September 1957 | |||
| Bobby Charlton | Last Manchester United F.C. player to survive the Munich air disaster | 6 February 1958 | ||
| Neil Armstrong | 25 August 2012 (aged 82) | Last astronaut candidate selected for Man in Space Soonest | 25 June 1958 | |
| Oscar Holderer[139] | 5 May 2015 (aged 95) | Last surviving engineer of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team | 1959 | |
| Dorothea Schlidt[140] | 10 May 2021 (aged 100) | Last surviving member of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team | ||
| George Mikan | Last surviving individual member of the inaugural induction class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | |||
| Yuri Yudin | Last (and only) survivor of the Dyatlov Pass incident | 2 February 1959 | ||
| Barron Hilton | Last member of the Foolish Club, the 8 original franchise owners of American Football League teams | 14 August 1959 | ||
| Boris Volynov | Living (age) | Last living member of the First Squad of Soviet Cosmonauts | 7 March 1960 | |
| Kurt Diemberger | Living (age) | Last person to make the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres | 25 May 1960 | |
| Sander Vanocur | Last on-screen participant in the first Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate | 26 September 1960 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. R. Swart | Last Governor-General of South Africa | 30 April 1961 | ||
| Antonio Imbert Barrera[141] | Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo | 30 May 1961 | ||
| Dorothy Height | 20 April 2010 (aged 98) | Last member of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women | 14 December 1961 | |
| Millito Navarro[142] | 30 April 2011 (aged 105) | Last surviving player of the Negro American League | 26 August 1962[143] | |
| Ted Sorensen | Last member of EXCOMM during the Cuban Missile Crisis | 28 October 1962 | ||
| Ken Weller[144] | 25 January 2021 (aged 85) | Last member of the Spies for Peace | April 1963[145] | |
| John Glenn | Last astronaut who flew in Project Mercury | 16 May 1963 | ||
| Valentina Tereshkova | Living (age) | Last cosmonaut who flew in a Vostok mission | 19 June 1963 | |
| Bob Welch | Last known participant in the Great Train Robbery[146] | 8 August 1963 | ||
| John Lewis | Last speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and last member of the Big Six | 28 August 1963 | ||
| Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. | Last perpetrator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing | 15 September 1963 | ||
| Clint Hill | Living (age) | Last passenger of John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine after Kennedy was shot | 22 November 1963 | |
| Andrew Wyeth | Last living recipient of the inaugural Presidential Medal of Freedom | 6 December 1963 | ||
| Albert H. Crews | Living (age) | Last astronaut from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program | 10 December 1963 | |
| James Ramsden | Last Secretary of State for War | 1 April 1964 | ||
| Andrew Mlangeni | Last Rivonia Trialist | 12 June 1964 | ||
| Birch Bayh | Last United States Senator to vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 19 June 1964 | ||
| Edgar Ray Killen | 11 January 2018 (aged 92) | Last person convicted for the Mississippi Burning murders | 21 June 1964 | |
| Gerald Ford | Last member of the Warren Commission | 24 September 1964 | ||
| Alexei Leonov | Last member of the Voskhod programme | 19 March 1965 | ||
| John Young | Last crew member of Gemini 3, the first spaceflight conducted by two American astronauts | 23 March 1965 | ||
| Marjorie Tallchief[147] | Last of the Five Moons | 1966[148] | ||
| Alberto Moravia | Last author formerly listed on the Index of Forbidden Books | 14 June 1966 | ||
| Geoff Hurst | Living (age) | Last footballer of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final winning team[149] [150] | 30 July 1966 | |
| Waldemar Levy Cardoso | Last Marshal of Brazil | 1967 | ||
| Artati Marzuki-Sudirdjo | Last minister who served in Sukarno's regime | 12 March 1967 | ||
| Stylianos Pattakos | Last leader of the 1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta | 21 April 1967 | ||
| James A. Abrahamson | Living (age) | Last astronaut from Manned Orbiting Laboratory Group 3 | 30 June 1967 | |
| Ed Herlihy[151] | Last American narrator of a newsreel | 24 October 1967[152] | ||
| John Minor Wisdom | Last of the Fifth Circuit Four | 1968 | ||
| Fred R. Harris[153] | Last member of the Kerner Commission | 29 February 1968[154] | ||
| Walter Cunningham | Last crew member of Apollo 7 | 22 October 1968 | ||
| Joe Engle | Last X-15 pilot | 24 October 1968 | ||
| Buzz Aldrin | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo 11 | 24 July 1969 | |
| Aleksei Yeliseyev | Living (age) | Last cosmonaut to dock with Salyut 1, the world's first space station | 24 April 1971 | |
| Nurul Amin | Last Prime Minister of both the East and West wings of Pakistan | 16 December 1971 | ||
| William Gopallawa | Last Governor-General of Ceylon | 22 May 1972 | ||
| G. Gordon Liddy | Last member of the original Watergate Seven | 17 June 1972 | ||
| Edward Bernard Raczyński | Last member of the Rada Trzech | 8 July 1972 | ||
| Ernest Hendon[155] | Last survivor of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | November 1972 | ||
| Harrison Schmitt | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo 17 | 19 December 1972 | |
| Holly Woodlawn[156] | Last of the Warhol superstars | 1973 | ||
| Joseph P. Kerwin | Living (age) | Last crew member of Skylab 2, the first manned mission to Skylab | 22 June 1973 | |
| William Ruckelshaus | Last government official involved in the Saturday Night Massacre | 20 October 1973 | ||
| Edward Gibson | Living (age) | Last crew member of Skylab 4, the final manned mission to Skylab | 8 February 1974 | |
| Gordon C. Strachan | Living (age) | Last member of the second Watergate Seven | 1 March 1974 | |
| Larry C. Green[157] | Living (age) | Last convicted "Zebra murderer" | 1 May 1974 | |
| Lowell Weicker | Last member of the United States Senate Watergate Committee | 27 June 1974 | ||
| Ronald Reagan | Last member of the Rockefeller Commission | 1975 | ||
| Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | Last president of the Republic of Vietnam | 30 April 1975 | ||
| Khamtai Siphandone | Living (age) | Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War | ||
| Vance D. Brand | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo-Soyuz | 24 July 1975 | |
| Valéry Giscard d’Estaing | Last signer of the Helsinki Accords | 1 August 1975 | ||
| Fernando Suárez González | Last minister who had served in Francisco Franco's regime | 20 November 1975 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Hart | Living (age) | Last member of the Church Committee | April 1976 | |
| Yao Wenyuan[158] | Last member of China's Gang of Four | 6 October 1976 | ||
| Douglas MacDiarmid[159] | Last surviving member of The Group | 1977 | ||
| Larry Newman | Last crew member of the Double Eagle II | 17 August 1978 | ||
| Marian Anderson | Last honoree of the inaugural Kennedy Center Honors | 5 December 1978 | ||
| Khieu Samphan | Living (age) | Last senior member of the Khmer Rouge | 7 January 1979 | |
| Timothy Knatchbull | Living (age) | Last survivor of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten | 27 August 1979 | |
| Walter Philip Leber | Last surviving Governor of the Panama Canal Zone | 30 September 1979 | ||
| Vladimir Bakarić[160] | Last member of Josip Broz Tito's inner circle | 4 May 1980 | ||
| Angeline Nanni[161] [162] | 27 August 2019 (aged 101) | Last member of the Venona project | 1 October 1980 | |
| Robert Crippen | Living (age) | Last crew member of STS-1, first flight of the Space Shuttle program aboard space shuttle Columbia | 14 April 1981 | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev[163] | Last living member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era | 10 November 1982 | ||
| Last head of state of the Soviet Union | 25 December 1991 | |||
| Story Musgrave | Living (age) | Last crew member of STS-6, the first flight of space shuttle Challenger | 9 April 1983 | |
| Vladimir Solovyov | Living (age) | Last crew member of Soyuz T-15, the first crew to visit the Mir space station and the last crew to visit the Salyut 7 space station | 16 July 1986 | |
| Vasilije Krestić | Living (age) | Last signer of SANU Memorandum, which started the Breakup of Yugoslavia | September 1986 | |
| Brian Willson | Living (age) | Last participant in the Veterans Fast For Life protest | 17 October 1986 | |
| Joey Bishop | Last of the original Rat Pack | 1988[164] | ||
| Suharto | Last Commander of Order and Security | 5 September 1988 | ||
| Last awarded Jenderal Besar TNI | 5 October 1997 | |||
| Gheorghe Apostol | Last signer of the Letter of the Six | March 1989 | ||
| Karel Urbánek | Living (age) | Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | 20 December 1989 | |
| Egon Krenz | Living (age) | Last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany | 5 April 1990 | |
| Stanislav Hurenko | Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR | 1 September 1991 | ||
| Al D'Amato | Living (age) | Last member of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism | 27 September 1991 | |
| Petar Matić Dule | Last People's Hero of Yugoslavia | 29 September 1991 | ||
| Vadim Bakatin | Last Chairman of the KGB | 16 November 1991 | ||
| Vitold Fokin | Living (age) | Last signer of the Belovezh Accords that put an end to the Soviet Union | 8 December 1991 | |
| Dmitry Yazov | 25 February 2020 (aged 95) | Last Marshal of the Soviet Union | 26 December 1991 | |
| F. W. de Klerk | Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa and last State President | 10 May 1994 | ||
| Wan Li | Last member of China's Eight Elders | February 1997 | ||
| Alberto Alemán Zubieta[165] | Living (age) | Last Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission | 31 December 1999 |
A few of the individuals listed above are pictured here, for visual reference. Each picture is captioned.